Relatives of a Hamas terrorist said on Sunday they will seek to block the release of a movie being made in Israel about his 2010 assassination in a Dubai luxury hotel, The Associated Press reported.

The killing of Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was widely blamed on Israel´s Mossad spy agency, which never confirmed or denied involvement. The movie being made on the assassination features Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli as a temptress working for the hit team.

Al-Mabhouh’s cousin, Ahmed, told AP on Sunday that the Israeli movie is a “Zionist conspiracy” to defame his cousin. Ahmed, who lives in Gaza, added that details of the suit, including where to file it, are still being worked out.

The movie´s producer, Micha Scharfstein, dismissed the allegations, saying the movie takes artistic license and is not meant to be factual.

“Mabhouh, from our point of view, was a murderer with blood on his hands, and I don´t see any reason not to do a movie about it,” he told AP. He added that the French-Israeli co-production, entitled “Kidon” (Hebrew for spear), is to be released in about half a year.

Al-Mabhouh was killed on Jan. 19, 2010, in a Dubai hotel room. Dubai police later released hotel camera footage showing the assassination team, wearing disguises and tracking its target. Authorities said al- Mabhouh was apparently injected with a muscle relaxant and suffocated with a pillow.

Parts of the movie are now being filmed in the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat. In a movie plot twist, a gang of criminals murders al- Mabhouh in an attempt to frame the Mossad.

Ahmed al-Mabhouh told AP the family learned about the movie from the media and hopes to prevent its release.

“We consider this movie ... a distortion of our late martyr and reject the Zionist conspiracy against him after his death which everyone knows is a lie,” he said.(IsraelNationalNews © 2012 05/21/12)